Facts And Myths About Sex
It's true that having more sexual partners could increase a person's chance of getting an STD, but there are ways to prevent STDs or cure them. Regular STD testing can also help prevent the spread of these infections without compromising a person's sex life. It's teachings like these that stigmatize people with STDs like chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV. These STDs can be cured or treated with medication to help prevent a person with an STD from spreading it to sexual partners.
Sexual offenders are “ordinary” and “normal” individuals who come from all educational, occupational, racial, and cultural backgrounds. This myth exemplifies our cultural tendency to blame victims – it is not the case that victims are assaulted because they failed to spot an obvious perpetrator. Male rape only happens in prison, and is due to the lack of sexually available women. Many women falsely report rape as a means of revenge or to get attention.
The best way to avoid getting pregnant is to use a condom. There can be a risk for HIV or another blood-borne infection if the instruments used for piercing or tattooing either are not sterilized or disinfected between clients. Any instrument used to pierce or cut the skin should be used once and thrown away. They should show you what precautions they use, or don't get pierced or tattooed there.
There's a theory that women who spend a ton of time around each other, like roommates, coworkers, or best friends, will eventually have their menstrual cycles sync up so they occur at the same time. The first time a woman has sex, her hymen will break like "popping a cherry." And, of course, school isn't the only place former adolescents learned about sex, whether or not what they learned was true. Magazines, peers, TV shows, and movies spread plenty of misinformation as well. Sexual health education is a fairly recent development in the United States, with the first sex ed classes cropping up in schools in the 1960s, according to Planned Parenthood.
When not surgically induced, menopause is a natural process that starts, on average, in your 40s and ends by about age 51. You’ve reached the official menopause mile-marker once you’ve gone 12 months without experiencing a period. More than 75 percent of reported rapes are between people that know each other. This includes partners, spouses, classmates, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers.
Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence is a statewide coalition of individual sexual assault crisis programs. The Alliance works to myths about women and sex end sexual violence through victim assistance, community education, and public policy advocacy. An overwhelming majority of sex offenders are male, but it is possible for women to be perpetrators of rape and sexual violence, even against men.
The internet has changed how kids learn about sex, but sex ed in the classroom still sucks. In Sex Ed 2.0, Mashable explores the state of sex ed and imagines a future where digital innovations are used to teach consent, sex positivity, respect, and responsibility. The theory is that thanks to a blackout, a blizzard, a bomb scare, or some other factor that interrupts the lights and internet, people decide to entertain themselves in other ways. While this sounds like a fun plot to a rom-com, this is an urban legend, says S. Philip Morgan, a Duke professor of sociology and demography and author of a study looking at theeffects of these events on birth rates. The data simply don’t support the idea of a “blackout baby boom,” he says.